This course provides a comprehensive look at Java inheritance, including access modifiers and overriding methods. Students are introduced to abstract classes, and will learn how to read and write to files, use regular expressions for parsing text, and how to leverage complex data structures like collections and maps.
This course is part of the Introduction to Programming with Python and Java Specialization
About this Course
High school or college math.
“Introduction to Java and Object-Oriented Programming” Coursera course.
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Examine the concept of inheritance in object-oriented programming and learn how to extend classes and override methods in a subclass.
Analyze and fix different parts of a Java program using Eclipse's interactive debugger.
Explore different methods for opening, reading, and writing to external files, and deal with errors and exceptions.
Examine advanced techniques for storing and manipulating data in collections, and parse text using regular expressions (or regex).
Skills you will gain
- Debugging
- Problem Solving
- Java Programming
- Data Structure
- Inheritance
High school or college math.
“Introduction to Java and Object-Oriented Programming” Coursera course.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Module 1 : Inheritance, Polymorphism Using Overriding, & Access Modifiers
Module 2 : Abstract Classes & Debugging
Module 3 : File I/O & Exceptions
Module 4 : Collections, Maps, & Regular Expressions
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- 5 stars81.13%
- 4 stars15.09%
- 1 star3.77%
TOP REVIEWS FROM INHERITANCE AND DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA
More examples for Collections and Maps should be added
This course suits everyone who wants to start learning programming. The assignments are really challenging but interesting.
Cool course! Main concepts explained and requires to do some homework over google to complete assignments!
The lectures are good! However, some descriptions in assignments are not clear.
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